Youth Has Flown

1987-12-10 – Teaser’s – Hamilton, ON

Harvey Dog (vocals) Paul Settle (trumpet) Bill Day (guitar, vocals) John Kinsella (bass, vocals) Bruce Black (drums)


Lyrics

Youth Has Flown - drawing by Harvey Dog 2021 for the 1987 Hated Uncles song "Youth Has Flown".

I was walking in the cold
saw some kids playing in the snow,
they seemed so alive
so I stopped to watch,
everyone was having fun,
you know, I felt so old.

C –
Responsibility is calling me
Respectability is calling me
Maturity has a hold on me
I’m no longer free…

“Get a degree and you’ll be free,
you know that education is the key,”
those days of youth have passed me by
like a wounded bird shot from the sky,
I’m lying naked in the street
looking for a meal and looking for sex.

C

Dreams of the mushroom cloud haunt my sleep
but I’m too fucking old to sit and weep,
I sit and drink and think about my sanity,
how the freedom bell has no identity,
my childhood dreams have been replaced
with the technology of the nuclear race.

C


Video

Youth Has Flown – 1987 – Live at Teaser’s, December 10th, 1987


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